I’m delighted to announce that 44 Hours or Strike! will receive the Canadian Jewish Literary Award (Youth Literature). http://www.cjlawards.ca/
The awards ceremony will take place on Sun. Oct. 30, 2 p.m. at York University. The event is free but you have to register to get tickets:
The other award winners are:
Fiction: Sigal Samuel, for The Mystics of Mile End (Freehand Books).
Scholarship: Sarah Phillips Casteel, for Calypso Jews: Jewishness in the Caribbean Literary Imagination (Columbia University Press).
Biography/Memoir: Howard Akler, for Men of Action (Coach House Press).
History: Michael Marrus, for Lessons of the Holocaust (University of Toronto Press)
Children and Youth Fiction: Anne Dublin, for 44 Hours or Strike! (Second Story Press)
Holocaust Literature: Agata Tuszyńska, for A Family History of Fear (Knopf Canada)
Yiddish: Helen Mintz, for Vilna, My Vilna: Stories by Abraham Karpinowitz (Syracuse University Press).
Jewish Thought and Culture: Julia Creet, Sara R. Horowitz and Amira Bojadzija-Dan, for H.G. Adler: Life, Literature, Legacy (Northwestern University Press).